Chapter 2: Chancellor Palpatine?
It had been a day since Anakin had met Engel, he looked a lot like Chancellor Palpatine, and for some reason he stayed on Anakin's ship, since it was too late to return to his village.
Anakin woke up suddenly and saw that Engel had already been awake for a long time.
"Chancellor Palpatine…how are you?" Anakin said without thinking.
Engel made a gesture of annoyance and said with some annoyance, "I'm not Chancellor Palpatine... do you understand me, Anakin? "I'm not that person you know."
But Anakin shook his head, he still didn't understand what was happening. "Sorry... I had forgotten, Mr. Engel, it's just that she's just like him... they're like twins."
"I'll make something to eat, it's the least I can do after you let me spend the night."
There was quite delicious roast meat with some seasonings, which made it smell exquisite.
They both got ready to have breakfast, but in the middle of everything Anakin still had his doubts, he tried to use force to find out who Engel was, he felt that there was something behind everything, something he was hiding.
It was very strange. Engel had been in this world for so many years and until now he showed himself, there is something strange, he feels a very slight fluctuation in the Force but almost imperceptible to anyone.
"What's wrong Anakin? Why are you so quiet?" He asked her directly for her silence.
"I think that's what you should say…" Anakin answered directly, "I feel like he's lying... and I doubt he got here just like that."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know how to say it but I feel that Palpatine is really the chancellor that I knew, I feel that he is lying to me sir."
But Engel was more than tired of this situation. "Anakin... I'm tired of you insisting that I am that person, that Palpatine guy... I'M NOT THAT ONE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT?!" He stood up quickly, extremely annoyed, but, Anakin added.
"Well... if it's not him, tell me what is he hiding? "Sir... I am a Jedi and even if I am badly wounded, I feel through the Force when someone is hiding something."
Engel sighed and, the truth is, he was hiding something after all. "Yes... there is something Anakin, I have seen you for a long time since you arrived, I have seen you here but I never wanted to get close to you."
"Because? I don't understand"
But Engel shook his head. "I don't really know, I thought it was a bad idea."
But, I have had strange and confusing dreams, somehow I feel like I know you."
Anakin didn't know what to answer and Engel adds in closing. "I'm not that person you say, in truth, I have lived here all this time, and if I arrived last night it was because of the festival."
"Sir... sorry for my insistence, there are things that I don't understand because of my amnesia.
Furthermore, you are physically equal to him, even if you don't believe it, and I felt some joy at that possibility." Anakin was frustrated that he couldn't remember anything after the accident.
"Now, it's nothing Anakin, I understand why you're like this, amnesia is too difficult for anyone." Engel responded while the two of them continued eating and also added "I... would also be the same as you if I suffered from amnesia. But tell me... apart from that friend you say, do you have more family? Do you know anyone else?
Anakin shook his head emphatically, "No…. I have no clear memories of them, only distant, hazy fragments of them all, sir."
Engel thought of something, an idea he had... It was something strange but maybe useful to Anakin.
"Anakin, as I said, I come from a place far away from these tribal communities. I come from a town far from these communities, I have a friend who knows how to use force and can see visions of the past and the future. Maybe she can help you."
"Is there really anyone who can help me?" Anakin asked in genuine surprise at such a thing.
"I'll take you to her myself, what do you think? Do you accept?"
"Of course".